Communicating stereotype-relevant information: Is factual information subject to the same communication biases as fictional information?

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 836-852

  Goodman, Ruth L ^a   Webb, Thomas L ^b   Stewart, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Linguistic abstraction; Linguistic expectancy bias; Newspaper articles; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NARRATION; NEWSPAPERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 67849095328     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167209334780     Document Type: Article

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